There’s a Lyme Doctor Around Every Corner…
Or at least I feel like there is! The second I say I have Lyme, I am offered doctor referrals for someone who wasn’t getting better and saw a Lyme Literate Doctor - always 2nd or 3rd hand, so I can’t get the whole scoop. I don’t know. Do they really know better than the CDC? I know I’ve read that many of the treatments given are actually dangerous or have been proven not to be effective and I’ve heard, even from referrers, that the doctors charge big bucks.
I have a lot of joint pain and some short term memory problems (usually at the same time I’m having the pain, so I think it is just that it hurts too much to remember stuff…) but I don’t think it is worth dying over with risky treatments.
Have you been to a doctor specializing in Lyme? Did it work for you or was it a bad decision?
November 12th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
See only a Lyme literate doctor, and get the Rocephin IV or your brain damage will only get worse! the oral antibiotics don’t cross the blood/brain barrier. I had what seemed like mild demential sxs, and 2 yrs after 6 mos (too long) on Rocephin IV, it’s better, but still there. Numbers, yeah, and short term memory, and coping, confusion, disorientation, anxiety, etc. So don’t wait! Get a doctor who only treats advanced Lyme, or just insist on the Rocephin IV for at least 3 months. I think I’d be dead by now without it.